Then he absurdly claims that it's wrong to have a presumptive nominee at all. We have to all pretend not to know who won until the convention.

Bernie has been exposed as a total hypocrite on things like super delegates and 'rigged systems.' In 2008, he endorsed Obama at the end of the primary season.

After all, Hillary was much closer than Bernie is today-she actually led in the popular vote. But she didn't wait to endorse him till the convention.

Bernie needs to stop being a sore loser. If you won't respect the democratic rules of the game you don't deserve to even be a player.

Jamil Smith:

"In every presidential election that I can recall, there is a presumptive nominee for each party. "Presumptive" being the key word."

"I don't see where the @AP did anything wrong. They surveyed the supers, and Clinton hit the number. Were they supposed to sit on the story?"

https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/740035158179520512

Another false thing Bernie is saying is that he is a very close runner up. Wrong. Three million votes back, close to 300 pledged delegates back, trailing in the popular vote by a landslide double digit margin.

Oh, but no.

Hillary won the popular vote, and lost by 130 delegates-which was also a considerable deficit, but much closer than The Bern.

Gary Hart, and Jesse Jackson were also closer. I am grateful that Jesse Jackson is speaking with Bernie. He can give him a reality check-in a tactful way.

Jackson has been there. He lost to Dukakis in 1988 and then the party made some of Jackson's reforms at the convention.

Ironically, one Jackson reform was for more super delegates.

But I agree with Jamelle Bouie, I think the Dem system is pretty good with it's 'mix of majoritarian and nonmajoritarian' elements.

But that's what I love about Bouie: he's a true liberal.

Just a hint: the Bernie and his bros are not liberal, they are illiberals.

I don't necessarily agree then, that there is a need to have fewer SDs in the future-though in a sense they have lead to more-willful-confusion by Team Bernie. Hillary has beaten him without the SDs.

Still, I would be slow to 'fix' a problem that doesn't exist.

The main reform I do agree with is to phase out the caucuses. As for open vs. closed, I actually think this year shows the efficacy of closed primaries. We want Dems to decide the nominee, not liberal independents too fastidious to call themselves Dems.

Believe it or not, I don't especially want HA Goodman, Seth Abramson, or Shaun King in the Democratic party.

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